When we see through our hearts, we recognize that every single one of us is infused with creativity. Divine Sparks are embedded in everyone and everything. It's up to us to be courageous, to look and listen deeply, to find the sparks, gather and release them back into the universe, transformed into something new. Join me as we wake up to the sacred-ordinary blessings waiting to greet us each and every day.

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Monday, March 20, 2017

Tomorrow it will be three weeks since we said goodbye and the first time we led you into the woods, where you had always run ahead before, turning yours to be sure I was following. One day I will again. May you rest peacefully beneath the earth, tall trees and expansive sky.

We miss you dear Ellie. We miss you.

In loving memory of our Ellie

Click the arrow to watch a short video of our sweetheart through the years.

Saturday, November 5, 2016

Throughout the month of November, I will post a photo (or perhaps a few) each day of something that invited me to pause and lifted up gratitude, joy, perhaps a quiver of awe in my heart the moment I stopped to be present and really see. By reviewing the image/images to share with you, the experience is engraved deeper in my consciousness, strengthening a reserve of gratitude and goodness to savor and draw upon when gloomy weather outside echoes inside, or vice versa. For me this is a devotional photographic journey for developing the soul quality of Hakarat Hatov, Recognizing the Good, a Jewish spiritual practice for cultivating gratitude. I may add writing some days, I may not; I’ll trust my inner compass to guide me.

I will include a link back to each Sunday’s I Heart Macro post so you can participate anytime during the week as usual.

I look forward to receiving your written patches of thanks for this year's 8th Annual GratitudeQuilt! Send me an email and I will add it to the quilt:

Friday, November 4, 2016

Throughout the month of November, I will post a photo (or perhaps a few) each day of something that invited me to pause and lifted up gratitude, joy, perhaps a quiver of awe in my heart the moment I stopped to be present and really see. By reviewing the image/images to share with you, the experience is engraved deeper in my consciousness, strengthening a reserve of gratitude and goodness to savor and draw upon when gloomy weather outside echoes inside, or vice versa. For me this is a devotional photographic journey for developing the soul quality of Hakarat Hatov, Recognizing the Good, a Jewish spiritual practice for cultivating gratitude. I may add writing some days, I may not; I’ll trust my inner compass to guide me.

I will include a link back to each Sunday’s I Heart Macro post so you can participate anytime during the week as usual.

I look forward to receiving your written patches of thanks for this year's 8th Annual GratitudeQuilt! Send me an email and I will add it to the quilt:

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Throughout the month of November, I will post a photo (or perhaps a few) each day of something that invited me to pause and lifted up gratitude, joy, perhaps a quiver of awe in my heart the moment I stopped to be present and really see. By reviewing the image/images to share with you, the experience is engraved deeper in my consciousness, strengthening a reserve of gratitude and goodness to savor and draw upon when gloomy weather outside echoes inside, or vice versa. For me this is a devotional photographic journey for developing the soul quality of Hakarat Hatov, Recognizing the Good, a Jewish spiritual practice for cultivating gratitude. I may add writing some days, I may not; I’ll trust my inner compass to guide me.

I will include a link back to each Sunday’s I Heart Macro post so you can participate anytime during the week as usual.

I look forward to receiving your written patches of thanks for this year's 8th Annual GratitudeQuilt! Send me an email: What are you grateful for in THIS moment?

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

As the Hebrew month of Cheshvan begins, a month in which there are no big communal
celebrations, just like nature around us here in the northern hemisphere, we too
curl inward, attending to the tasks of living and dying, the wonder of simply
being present to the blessing of an ordinary moment, recognizing the good.

Yesterday afternoon I
sat with a patient who was actively dying. Honored and awed by the wonder of
simply being present at a completely sacred yet simultaneously ordinary passage
of time. I attended to the tasks of living and dying, by recognizing the good, bearing witness to her delicately featured 91-year-old face, while her shrunken body curled inward.

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Throughout the month of November, I will post a photo (or perhaps a few) each day of something that invited me to pause and lifted up gratitude, joy, perhaps a quiver of awe in my heart the moment I stopped to be present and really see. By reviewing the image/images to share with you, the experience is engraved deeper in my consciousness, strengthening a reserve of gratitude and goodness to savor and draw upon when gloomy weather outside echoes inside, or vice versa. For me this is a devotional photographic journey for developing the soul quality of Hakarat Hatov, Recognizing the Good, a Jewish spiritual practice for cultivating gratitude. I may add writing some days, I may not; I’ll trust my inner compass to guide me.

I will include a link back to each Sunday’s I Heart Macro post so you can participate anytime during the week as usual.

I look forward to receiving your written patches of thanks for this year's 8th Annual GratitudeQuilt! Send me an email: What are you grateful for in THIS moment?

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Throughout the month of November, I will post a photo (or perhaps a few) each day of something that invited me to pause and lifted up gratitude, joy, perhaps a quiver of awe in my heart the moment I stopped to be present and really see. By reviewing the image/images to share with you, the experience is engraved deeper in my consciousness, strengthening a reserve of gratitude and goodness to savor and draw upon when gloomy weather outside echoes inside, or vice versa. For me this is a devotional photographic journey for developing the soul quality of Hakarat Hatov, Recognizing the Good, a Jewish spiritual practice for cultivating gratitude. I may add writing some days, I may not; I’ll trust my inner compass to guide me.

I will include a link back to each Sunday’s I Heart Macro post so you can participate anytime during the week as usual.

I look forward to receiving your written patches of thanks for this year's 8th Annual GratitudeQuilt!Send me an email: What are you grateful for in THIS moment?

Saturday, October 29, 2016

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At this time in world history, the need for food and clean water is growing every day. Please click hereto make a small donation to my team for this year's CROP Hunger Walk, our interfaith community effort to end hunger one step at a time. And while you won't see my name individually listed, I just came home and I did walk the walk, and sang with our all new interfaith community choir. The clouds waited to open up and rain until I was almost home in my driveway. While the walk is complete donations are still most welcome. Thank you to everyone who already made generous offerings!

It has been a long time since last I blogged or posted an I Heart Macro meme, but it is always possible to begin again. I hope you will join me!

Enjoy slowing down with your
camera, paying full attention, observing beauty and curiosities many people
pass right by. Your generosity of spirit and keen eyes may open the door to
miniscule miracles and mirth others would not have access to otherwise. Feel
free to include poetry, prose and thoughts your macro photo or series
inspire(s) in you. Writing is completely optional for participation.
Straight out of the camera (SOC), edited, color, black and white, anything goes
as long as you bring the viewer near to whatever it is that drew your heart's
attention and "woke you up" to full presence.

Please
link back to my blog either by copying and pasting the button provided
above on your post, or by linking the words "I Heart Macro" back to
my blog with this link:

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Beyond the Dark Room

Some of my poems are published in this beautiful book of healing- from darkness to light. All proceeds are a direct donation to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders. Click the image to order the book from Amazon, the KINDLE edition is now available as well!

MS Awareness, my friend Cathy Aten

...the Holy One makes himself known to everyone according to the insight of his heart and his capacity to attach himself to the spirit of divine wisdom.

~Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

My writing can be found in this e-book too..

Click this icon to learn how you can support the Susan G. Komen mission to end breast cancer. In addition, you'll find information on how to recieve this Blog-4-Cause E-book, a gift to you in return for your generosity.

I want to ask you, as clearly as I can, to bear with patience all that is unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves, as if they were rooms yet to enter or books written in a foreign language. Don't dig for answers that can't be given you yet: you live them now. For everything must be lived. Live the questions now, perhaps then, someday, you will gradually, without noticing, live into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

Compassion Course Starts June 22, 16

click the image to find out how to join me and many people around the world on a 52 week journey to deepen and expand our hearts and minds in compassion

A few moments of your time can feed hungry people through the United Nations World Food Program

Click the path to enter my website. I have time to companion two new "souljourners."

I Heart Macro

NOW share the love up-close with I Heart Macro, everySunday evening from 8pm EST. The linky will remain open through the following Sunday at 7pm EST, at 8pm the next week's entries will start fresh.

Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives. ~ Brené Brown

Just to be is a blessing.

Just to live is holy.

~ Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Poppy Purse

Featured @ The Weekend In Black and White... thanks Dragon Star:-)

"Holiness isn't something ephemeral or amorphous that exists out there in the ether or the firmament. Holiness is what occurs in the moment of alchemy when any of us chooses to be fully present to another." ~ Leaf Seligman, Opening the Window

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I made an interesting discovery one day when writing to a KMCC client. When I entered the word"scatteredness" spell-check insisted on changing it to"sacredness".Indeed, thesmall, scatteredmoments ofcreativityandawareness that make up our days are often where sacredness can be found.

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It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.

~Ani Pema Chödrön

(Read about the Chipmunk King and view a video of Ani Pema discussing thishere)

Remnants

Before the eMeS, my now constant companion begged me to stay close to home, I taught art, yoga and meditation to Jewish teens in the Greater Boston area. The collage series in the slide show above was created using forgotten paper scraps that slipped between the cracks of the tables onto the floor, from an Art as a Sacred Practice class I taught to High School students several years ago. My intention was to find the intrinsic value in each remnant. Often the beauty of an individual person goes unrecognized or unappreciated until it is revealed in the context of a relationship; the same is true of colors, shapes and textures. Click on the images to take a closer look. They are tiny works, some no bigger than 1.5” x 1.5”

All art, photos, poetry, prose, essays, podcasts and music presented on this blog are original works by Laura Hegfield, unless otherwise indicated. If you wish to reproduce any of my work please contact me directly.